Greggs

I chose Greggs, out of curiosity, as a lunch option while shopping in Hounslow.
The café section was preceded by a bakery section. I think. There were about two shelves, which contained doughnuts, muffins, and loaves which looked very neat and identical.
Moving on to the café section, they had yogurts, salads, pasties, cakes, Danish pastries, croques, sandwiches, pasta, coffee, and other quintessential café food items. The prices were really appealing, with pasties costing about £1.50 and a bowl of pasta for £2.99.
A steak bake pasty and an iced apple cream Danish cost me exactly £3.
The steak bake was puff pastry filled with beef stew. I loved the warm, creamy and hearty taste of the beef stew, which were quite generous chunks.
The Danish pastry sandwiched a thin layer of apple and sauce under a thick poof of whipped cream, storybook style. The apple’s taste was drowned out under the cream which was a bit much, and I could only occasionally feel its gooey texture.
Greggs is a good option for a cheap café lunch, with tasty-​looking pastries and a few other limited options for savoury items, which includes customisable sandwiches (Emma: «The lady took forever to make my sandwich, and look, all my onions are falling out.») and fish fingers. Not somewhere to return to day-​after-​day, but alright when on a budget and for convenience’s sake.